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Peter Atte Wode
- Born: Abt 1297, Hooley House, Coulsdon, Surrey, England
- Marriage: Lawrance 81
- Died: After 1359, Wood Place, Coulsdon, Surrey, England 81
 Information about this person:
• Occupation: Segarent of Arms to the King.
• Background Information. 81
In 1346, Peter Atte Wode & his wife Lawrance, sued to record title to a wide acreage in surrey, including lands in Sanderstead Parish. According to Gower in The History of Sanderstead, Peter Atwood paid a fine on Sanderstead Manor in 1346.
Peter had bough 13 hides, not including the church and village, but he continued to live at Wood Place. In 1359, he was licensed by his bishop to maintain a chapel of his own at Wood Place. This Peter was a close associate of William of Wickhyam, with whom he was a Forest Warden with. Peter was Clerk to Willaim as Justice in Eyre, and they were King's commissioners together in rebuilding old Windsor Castle.
~Ye Ole Atte Wode Annals, p. 1
• Background Information. 110
The Atwood name originated in Coulsdon, a parish in Surrey, about twelve miles south of London, and adjoining Croydon and Sanderstea. At Coulsden are two estates called "Wood Place" and Hooley House." Peter Atte Wode, John Atte Wode and Geoffrey Atte Wode were tenants of the Abbey of Chertsey, holding these estares - their names appearing in 1313, 1346, 1357, 1384 - John Atte Wode (son or grandson of Peter), lessee of the manor from 1433 to 1455.
~History of the Atwood Family, in England and the United States: To which is Appended a Short Account of the Tenney Family, p. 5
Peter married Lawrance.115 (Lawrance died after 1346 in Wood Place, Coulsdon, Surrey, England.)
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